principal factor

collocation in English

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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfæk.tər/us
/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofprincipalandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Early exit from work is aprincipalfactorassociated with poverty and dependence among seniors.
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However, two factors suggest that this was not the only, or even theprincipalfactor.
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This legal status of the trade was without question aprincipalfactorin its rapid growth.
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The host response against parasites is suggested as theprincipalfactorresponsible for depauperate parasite communities of oysters.
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The decrease in this lengthscale appears to be theprincipalfactoraffecting the observed gross behaviour of the flow.
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The first unrotatedprincipalfactorhad loadings in excess of +0.40 for 12 of the 14 items.
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Take it in theprincipalfactor.
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Timber is not theprincipalfactor.
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That should perhaps be theprincipalfactor.
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There is little question that pay is theprincipalfactor.
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Theprincipalfactorlast year was the shortage of fish.
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What is theprincipalfactorin these things?
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Wages are aprincipalfactorin the cost of production.
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We usedprincipal-factoranalysis (starting with squared multiple correlations as the prior communality estimates) to extract the principal factors from the 17 premenstrual symptoms.
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More importantly, the strong host response produced by oysters against parasites seems to be theprincipalfactorstructuring metazoan parasite communities of oysters.
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However, despite this heterogeneous content, the vast majority of the symptoms in these scales have high factor loadings on a firstprincipalfactor.
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What is theprincipalfactorwhich is stopping us from doing this?
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That is theprincipalfactorin the reduction of numbers in the regiment.
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Theprincipalfactoris the lack of confidence in this country.
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What, after all, is really theprincipalfactorwhich governs the need of a locality?
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It rather depends on how long the scheme has been delayed; that is theprincipalfactor.
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Because 1929 was before the trade depression, which is theprincipalfactorin all this.
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Theprincipalfactorin the present situation is the drift down on the export order book.
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Relative population has become theprincipalfactorin determining the allocation of seats.
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